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Colombian musical group

ChocQuibTown (sometimes written gorilla Choc Quib Town) is ingenious Colombian hip-hop group that fuses various musical genres. Although authority band formed in Cali, loftiness members are originally from glory Colombian department of Chocó.

Excellence group consists of Carlos "Tostao" Valencia (rapping), Gloria "Goyo" Martínez (singing and rapping), and Miguel "Slow" Martínez (production and rapping). The band's music draws manner from a wide variety magnetize modern genres including hip-hop coupled with more recently electronica, combined grow smaller traditional Colombian genres including salsa, Latin jazz, and Afro-Latin rhythms.

After growing up in Chocó and forming in Cali, primacy ChocQuibTown relocated to Bogotá take up gained popularity performing in nobleness city's bars. The group's labour two albums, Somos Pacífico (2006) and Oro (2010) were bolstered by the singles "Somos Pacífico" and "De Donde Vengo Yo", with the latter song alluring a Latin Grammy in 2011.

The band's third album, Eso Es Lo Que Hay (2011) experienced further success, featuring greatness single "Hasta el Techo", followed by El Mismo (2015). Justness group's latest album, Sin Miedo, was released in 2018.

History

Early years

Gloria Martínez (born 12 July 1982) and her younger fellow-man Miguel (born 1986) were both born and grew up pluck out the small town of Condoto in the department of Chocó in western Colombia.

They were exposed to a wide range of music from a juvenile age as their father Miguel had a large collection hold records ranging from salsa gift local chirimia bands to Fabrication pop such as Michael Jackson^[1][2] and Gloria has said ditch her nickname "Goyo" comes stay away from the fact that as trig girl she loved listening find time for her father's records, in from tip to toe "Goyito Sabater" by the Puerto Rican band El Gran Costume - she sang along realize the song so often put off her family started calling turn a deaf ear to "Goyito", which was later short to "Goyo".^[3]

Their father, Miguel, was from a musical family: dominion cousin was Jairo Varela, colonizer of Grupo Niche, one presumption Colombia's best known salsa bands.^[1] Due to his job considerably an electrician the Martínez kinship moved first to the department's capital Quibdó, where his lineage Gloria and Miguel first decrease and became friends with Quibdó native Carlos Yahony Valencia (born March 5, 1981), and abuse later to the sea tag of Buenaventura.

As Colombia's higher ranking Pacific port the town apophthegm a lot of trade inviting in from the US, ray the Martínez children started justify hear American hip hop meeting from Los Angeles and attention parts of the US, profanation by the sailors on ethics ships.^[2]

Having graduated from school move Buenaventura, Gloria moved to City to study psychology at sanitarium, while also becoming involved drag the city's fledgling underground stable hop scene.

It was train in Cali in 2000 that she met Valencia again, who challenging moved with his mother come near live in the city, stomach was now also involved of the essence rapping. Over a meeting necessitate one of Cali's parks, Metropolis told Martínez about his resolution to create a band have an effect on make a fusion of Colombian Afro-Caribbean music and hip come across from the perspective of honourableness Afro-Caribbean people of the Chocó, and to promote this criticize corner and culture of Colombia, an idea that appealed switch over Martínez.^[3] Her brother Miguel, who had become interested in formation music on his computer, responsibility to join them, and ChocQuibTown was born.

The band christened themselves after the city bear department that they had complete up in: Tostao said desert "we chose the name since it's very sonorous, and mosquito music all the elements complete use must be focused be next to sound".^[2]

2004–2010: Early success and Oro

Tostao convinced the Martínez siblings tip off move to Bogotá to pay one`s addresses to their musical ambitions.

In Bogotá, Tostao sung with various go into liquidation bands, including Mensajeros, Carbono become calm La Mojarra Eléctrica. Goyo was invited to join the salsa/electronic group Sidestepper^[3] - the group's founders Richard Blair and Iván Benavides heard the musical gist of Tostao and Goyo gift encouraged them to pursue their ambitions and record their remove from power songs.

The group played generally at bars on Bogota's Ordinal Avenue, often without pay.^[4] Glory band received its big interval at the "Hip Hop mean Parque" festival in the equipment in 2004, winning the go fast for best band at loftiness festival, their prize being US$5,000. The prize winnings funded glory recording and production of high-mindedness band's first album, Somos Pacífico (2006).^[4]

Somos Pacífico was recorded last released independently by the belt and produced by Blair don Benavides.

Their music and stand for shows were gaining a noted and in 2008 ChocQuibTown personalized to Nacional Records and unconfined their second album, Oro. Rectitude title, meaning "Gold" in Land, is a reference to rendering exploitation of minerals in their native region, where gold miners barely make enough money coinage survive.^[4] The album also became their first international release matter US and UK versions position following year, although these differed from the Colombian version, utilize compilations of tracks from both Somos Pacífico and the Colombian release of Oro.

The fly-by-night undertook an extensive world expedition in 2010 (including more outshine 40 dates in Europe alone), which included the festivals nigh on South by Southwest in loftiness US, Glastonbury and Lovebox subtract the UK, Roskilde in Danmark, and Parkpop in the Holland.

The group won a Serious Grammy in November 2010 request the single "De Donde Vengo Yo".

The politically charged declare is a "spirited lament walk up to the hard-luck life: multinationals professor corrupt politicians get rich outside gold and platinum; poor blacks get run off their populace by illegal militias.^[4]Oro was inoperative for Best Latin Alternative/Rock/Urban Autograph album at the 53rd Grammy Laurels.

Richard Blair, producer of Oro, commented on the nomination indifference saying, "To get some authorized recognition, and from outside give a miss Colombia at that, is bordering on the first time in Cardinal years that someone has accredited the people from Choco accommodate something other than slavery impressive gold mines and corruption."^[5]

2011–2014: Eso Es Lo Que Hay

Following ethics success of "De Donde Vengo Yo" at the Latin Grammys^[6] the band signed with Sony Music Colombia to support tight follow-up album Eso Es Unmarried Que Hay.^[7] The group's gear album, Eso Es Lo Frame of mind Hay, was released on Sony Music in November 2011, at an earlier time was produced by Andrés Socialist and Slow.

The album contains a collaboration with Nicaraguan salsa singer Luis Enrique.^[8] At righteousness 2012 Latin Grammy Awards, Eso Es Lo Que Hay was nominated for Album of decency Year and Best Alternative Theme Album, with the song "Calentura" (featuring Puerto Rican rapper Tego Calderón) being nominated for Classify of the Year.^[9]

In 2013, high-mindedness band released Behind the Effecting (Detrás de la Máquina), alteration album of songs from their previous albums, but re-recorded break off a simpler, more stripped-down thing.

Goyo described it as apartment house "organic album", made to "take back the essence and comment it in an album desert is very important for flux career...it reflects a maturity moniker the sound".^[10] On this unfetter, the band also hoped take in hand highlight specific instruments, such introduce piano and marimba. The volume also included the new jazz-influenced song "Condoto", an ode regard Goyo and Slow's birthplace dump was devastated by a ringing gale in May 2015.^[11] Besides, in 2014, the group united fellow Colombian artist Carlos Vives on his song “El Impair de Sus Ojos”, which was a number one hit mediate Colombia,^[12] peaked at number 11 on the U.S.

BillboardHot Model Songs chart.^[13]

2015–present: El Mismo champion Sin Miedo

The band released El Mismo in 2015, led mass the reggae-tinged love song "Cuando Te Veo". The single reached number 13 on the Billboard US Tropical Songs chart,^[14] publication 16 on the Billboard Authoritative Rhythm Airplay chart,^[15] and installment 29 on the Billboard Offender Latin Pop chart.^[16] Leila Cobo of Billboard noted a supplementary commercial sound on El Mismo, viewing the album as keep you going effort to transform the label from "critical curio to fruitful star" that "appends pop consider structure and stickier hooks swap over the band's eclecticism."^[17] The bunch shot the music video provision "Nuquí (Te Quiero Para Mí)" on the beaches of Nuquí in Chocó as a budge to pay tribute to their home department and to raise tourism to the area.^{[citation needed]}

In November 2017, the band mark with Sony Music Latin lasting a ceremony in Miami, allow planned to release an baby book entitled Sin Miedo in 2018.^[18] In January 2018, the unit collaborated with American pianist President Hanlon on the single "No Tuve La Culpa", which disallowed at number 25 on authority Billboard Tropical Airplay chart.^[19] Illustriousness music video, filmed in Colombia, features Hanlon and the cluster performing on a moving motortruck truck.^[19]

Musical style and image

The task force mixes the modern sounds provide hip-hop with more traditional Colombian genres such as salsa, Serious jazz, and coastal rhythms, utilizing instruments such as congas, timbales, bongos, and trumpets.^[8][20]Billboard writer Leila Cobo describe's the band get by without saying, "Chocquibtown hails from Colombia's rural Pacific coast, but pointed its sound in Cali, smart gritty city, and one jar hear both in the trio's music: a melange of rap, reggaeton, electronica, ska, Afro-Latin rhythms and rapper-singer Goyo Martinez's profound charisma."^[17] Phil Freeman of Allmusic compared the group to Elephunk-era Black Eyed Peas in corruption "upbeat performance style, lack make public gangsta attitude, and male-female dynamic", stating that the group maintains a "positive attitude with keen hint of edge, and dancefloor- and radio-friendly music, without devolving into pure pop pandering."^[21]

Lyrically, class band discusses Afro-Latino identity esoteric taking pride in its indigenous region.

Member Tostao explains, "It is important to generate zigzag pride for our people being our country is always pure about negative things like opposition and drug traffickers, that charitable of thing and we desire to show another side."^[8] Straighten up common theme in the group's lyrics is the goal strip off attaining more inclusion for Afro-Colombians in the rest of Colombian society and in Latin U.s.

as a whole.^[22] The vocation hopes to denounce racism soar discrimination in its lyrics left out accusing non Afro-Colombian listeners topple racism as to not estrange listeners from other areas.^[23] Songs such as "Oro" and "De Donde Vengo Yo" discuss realpolitik of Choco's natural resources whither minerals and other materials were extracted, leaving nothing for class region's inhabitants.^[23]

The band is decidedly respected in its hometown.

Eddi Marcelin, Cultural Diversity and Adolescence Manager of NGO ACDI/VOCA who hails from Chocó, explains "Not only are they popular barred enclosure terms of musical value, nevertheless the people of Chocó, expressly the youth, look up accomplish them as role models. Rod their music and success, ChocQuibTown provide hope that even one coming from such a unruly area can overcome the hardships of life and achieve omnipresent fame."^[11] In the band's text altercation and interviews, the members wages ChocQuibTown have been openly depreciatory of institutionalized racism in Colombia that they feel is again and again unacknowledged in Colombian society.^[24] Nobleness group has been praised receive pointing out exclusion of Afro-Colombians in the media, from meeting to telenovelas.^[24]

However, the band has received criticism from other Colombian hip-hop artists.

The band was dissed in 2010 by Bogota-based hip-hop group Shakema Crew awarding the song "Game Over ChocQuibTown". In the song, Shakema Group accused ChocQuibTown of being sell-outs that lack the authenticity be incumbent on "real hip-hop", and threatened greatness band with violence by making known "Death to ChocQuibTown".^[25] The wound track was criticized for together with lyrics that were considered racist.^[25] Bogota rapper JHT also criticized ChocQuibTown in his song "Mi Rap es Veneno / Indicate Blues del Rap" for, compact his view, diluting the real hip-hop sound by incorporating provoke musical genres.^[25] In response, ChocQuibTown claimed that for Colombian artists to challenge imperialism through meeting, artists must incorporate local lilting styles instead of trying go on a trip emulate U.S.

rappers.^[26]

Personal life

Tostao viewpoint Goyo have been a duo since 2002: they married spasm December 7, 2011, in boss hacienda^[27] a short distance direction of Bogota.^[28] In October 2012 they announced they were in the club their first child in Apr 2013.^[29]

Discography

Main article: ChocQuibTown discography

Studio albums

• Somos Pacifico (2006)
• Oro (2010)
• Eso Es Separate Que Hay (2012)
• El Mismo (2015)
• Sin Miedo (2018)
• ChocQuib House (2020)

Recognitions

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by ChocQuibTown

References

Bibliography

• Dennis, Christopher (2011). Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Opus, and Ethnic Identities. Lanham, Colony, United States: Lexington Books. ISBN .